legalize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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to make lawful or legal
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to confirm or validate (something previously unlawful)
Other Word Forms
- legalization noun
- unlegalized adjective
Etymology
Origin of legalize
Example Sentences
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For many in Rarotonga, there is a sense of futility when it comes to U.S.-China competition and deep-sea mining, even though technically the islands haven’t yet formally legalized mining.
It attempts to fill a $1.2 billion budget hole by legalizing gambling terminals for bars and restaurants and borrowing for the likes of retroactive pay raises for firefighters.
“As new states legalize online sports betting, FanDuel Predicts will cease offering sports event contracts in those states,” the company said in Monday’s press release.
From Barron's
After that earlier Warner mugging, I wrote about the “legalized economic vandalism that antitrust has become.”
In 2004, Kast joined the local Catholic leadership in opposing a bill to legalize divorce in Chile, one of the few countries in the world that still banned it.
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